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Smart URL 's in Elinks

If you have Elinks installed then it already has a bunch of smart URL’s enabled .The table below lists those in Debian’s elinks package configuration file. The Elinks Manual explains how it works and how to build your own.

Here a example, lets search for what acronym “ALSA” means with elinks.

Press g in elinks and type a: ALSA when prompted with Enter URL. The a: is the keyword and ALSA (replaced in place of %s ) is search string, elinks smart rewrite expands it to http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=ALSA and submits it , You will be directed to the search results at acronymfinder.com.